Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 171 202
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.22% 0.26% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.92% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 8
10th Percentile £316 £321 £438
25th Percentile £385 £417 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £638 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +21.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £741 £538
90th Percentile £640 £825 £541
England median daily rate £525 £606 £550
% change year-on-year -13.37% +10.18% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,159 1,198 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.04% 28.25% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 767 813 1,115
10th Percentile £204 £263 £207
25th Percentile £361 £403 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.88% -2.38% +3.19%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £636
90th Percentile £659 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 23 51
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.72% +57.41% +28.57%
75th Percentile £27.50 £60.83 £56.73
90th Percentile £40.65 £64.73 £72.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +6 4 £575 -9.80% 15
Berkshire +13 2 £500 -4.76% 5
Hampshire - 2 - -
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £650 -9.57% 2
Surrey +1 1 - - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 9
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (50.00%) Serverless
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (12.50%) AWS KMS
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub
6 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (37.50%) Relational Database
4 2 (25.00%) MySQL
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (12.50%) DbUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) jMock
2 1 (12.50%) JUnit
2 1 (12.50%) Maven
2 1 (12.50%) Mockito
2 1 (12.50%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Ruby Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) REST
3 2 (25.00%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) React
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 2 (25.00%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (25.00%) Vue
4 1 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) JPA
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OpenID
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (25.00%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Release Management
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Chaos Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
5 1 (12.50%) Generative AI
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (25.00%) NIST
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
2 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 1 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (12.50%) JDA
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft